Anarchist reflections on anti-militarism since the invasion of Ukraine. Edited by Alex Alder and Bill Beech. Published in 2025 by Active Distribution.
from the Editorial by Alex Alder and Bill Beech
To resist militarism, we must draw the lines of struggle not against enemy nations and their armies but against the interconnected systems of power that dominate us all, beginning with 'our own' rulers and bosses.
This book brings together six anarchist responses to war and militarism. Since the invasion of Ukraine in 2022, a war fever has swept the anarchist movement and a large section of the left. The essays collected in this book seek to learn from the past in order to put forward a revolutionary yet realistic course of anarchist anti-militarism today.
Some of the topics included are: Internationalist opposition to WWI and WWII; the mechanics of imperialist politics; conscription (and resistance to it) in Ukraine, Russia, and Israel; anti-militarist responses to the war in Ukraine; the complex relationship between anarchism and militarism in Ireland.
Contents
- Introduction - Alex Alder and Bill Beech
- Defeatism in more senses than one - Declan McCormick
- Conscription in the current and coming wars - Andrew Żywności
- By the skin of our teeth: the Troubles, militarism and anarchists in
Ireland - Jason Brannigan, Organise! - IWA
- British anarchist opposition to the Second World War - Jasmine Lloyd
Attachments
Their Wars Our Dead.pdf
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